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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset;

2. the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event;
- Example: "he basked in the afterglow of his victory"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

After-glow \Aft"er-glow\, n. A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

afterglow n 1: a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset 2: the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event; "he basked in the afterglow of his victory"